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adjective

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as in pious

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verb

present participle of cant
as in tilting
to set or cause to be at an angle carefully canted the ladder against the wall

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Recent Examples of canting
Adjective
To achieve her extremely light displacement, the ClubSwan125 has a deep canting keel to reduce weight and increase righting moment. — Bill Springer, Forbes, 6 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for canting
  1. pious
  2. tilting
  3. moralistic
  4. sloping
  5. pharisaical
  6. leaning
  7. hypocritical
  8. sanctimonious
Adjective
  • Adenauer, De Gasperi, and Schuman were all devout Catholics, and Monnet, though not a religious man, was born into a pious Catholic family.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Philemon and Baucis, a pious Phrygian couple, hospitably received the disguised Zeus and Hermes after their richer neighbors had refused to do so.
    — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 July 2026
Definition of pious
Verb
  • As the seasons change and the Northern Hemisphere starts tilting away from the sun, the northern latitudes lose daylight much faster than southern latitudes.
    — Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • This six-seat configuration allows drivers to keep car seats for young children undisturbed since additional passengers can access the third row without tilting the second down.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of tilting
Adjective
  • Navy excels at untangling human emotions and picking through them without being didactic or moralistic.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 10 June 2026
  • Last year, a YouTube channel called Akhbar Enfejari (Explosive News) began posting a variety of digital content with a political and moralistic bent.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
Definition of moralistic
Verb
  • The Weekly Pattern Turning to the weekly chart, RRC has been trading in an upward-sloping channel going back to late 2022.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Leave the creek to walk any flat to gently sloping grass flats for gray partridge.
    — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of sloping
Adjective
  • Although he was noted for being supremely humble, our Way-shower, Christ Jesus, took strong antagonistic grounds against harsh pharisaical doctrine.
    — Jan Keeler Vincent, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Lists are no substitute for criticism, but those who take them as inimical to criticism are pharisaical.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2022
Definition of pharisaical
Verb
  • In 2010, for instance, the left-leaning blog Daily Kos said that polling for its website, conducted by a firm called Research 2000, was fraudulent.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • At the most recent ceremony, two K-pop-leaning tunes were up for the trophy.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of leaning
Adjective
  • Some players cited the league’s partnerships with sports betting companies as hypocritical or even laying the foundation for this sort of scandal.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 28 July 2026
  • Amendments placed on the ballot by lawmakers would still need only a statewide majority — a distinction critics call hypocritical.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 July 2026
Definition of hypocritical
Adjective
  • The thing is, McEnany, co-creator Tim Mason, and a team of executive producers that included Lilly Wachowski as well as Sweeney immediately subvert any expectation of a sanctimonious or self-serious exploration of identity.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
  • This, rather than sanctimonious display, is what should motivate Christians.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of sanctimonious

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